Why Me? (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) VCD
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Koko (Olivia Cheng, The Wild Ones) is a social worker with some serious issues of her own. Unable to come to terms with her own screwed-up home life, she aggressively sets out to fix other people's problems with the sometimes less-than-enthusiastic support of her boss/boyfriend (Chow Yun Fat). She throws herself into her first case - that of a poverty-stricken, mildly retarded man living with his widowed mother - with gusto. But despite his many hardships, "Fat Cat" sees nothing wrong with his lot in life. Koko's well-intentioned but misguided attempts to improve Fat Cat's social station backfire with tragic results. Two wounded souls, Fat Cat and Koko must look to each other to find the strength they need to cope with their fractured lives.
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| Product Title: | Why Me? (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) 何必有我? (VCD) (香港版) 何必有我? (VCD) (香港版) 何必有我? Why Me? (VCD) (Hong Kong Version) |
| Artist Name(s): | Kent Cheng (Actor) | Chow Yun Fat (Actor) | Cheng Man Ar (Actor) 鄭則仕 (Actor) | 周潤發 (Actor) | 鄭文雅 (Actor) 郑则仕 (Actor) | 周润发 (Actor) | 郑文雅 (Actor) 鄭則仕（ケント・チェン） (Actor) | 周潤發 （チョウ・ユンファ） (Actor) | オリビア・チェン (Actor) Kent Cheng (Actor) | 주윤발 (Actor) | Cheng Man Ar (Actor) |
| Director: | Kent Cheng 鄭則仕 郑则仕 鄭則仕（ケント・チェン） Kent Cheng |
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| Release Date: | 2000-01-01 |
| Language: | Cantonese, Mandarin |
| Subtitles: | English, Traditional Chinese |
| Country of Origin: | Hong Kong |
| Disc Format(s): | VCD |
| Rating: | I |
| Publisher: | Joy Sales (HK) |
| Other Information: | 2VCDs |
| Package Weight: | 100 (g) |
| Shipment Unit: | 1 What is it? |
| YesAsia Catalog No.: | 1000002400 |
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導演：鄭則士
KoKo（鄭文雅）受社會福利處家庭服務之男友（周潤發）影響，成為周之助手，滿懷壯志。KoKo與祖母相依為命，鄭父乃釋囚，終日無所事事靠借貨過活。
在一次工作過程中，鄭偶然認識了弱智青年肥貓（鄭則士），肥貓與母在新界鄉村小木屋居住，境況困苦，常遭村中惡棍戲弄。KoKo得悉肥貓家之不幸，便設法幫助，但肥貓母親性格倔強，不想別人憐憫，故拒絕接受援助……
Koko (Olivia Cheng) is a devoted social worker inspired by her boy friend (Chow Yuen Fat), who is also a sacial worker. Living with her grandmother, Koko has little respect for her father who is an ex-convict. In her field work to a remote vellage in New Territories, she gets to know a young man of low intelligent quotient, Fat Cat (Kent J.S. Cheng). He lives in poverty with his mother. Koko tries very hard to convince the mother to accept public assistance as well as getting the application approved. unfortunately, the mother does not live long enough to appreciate Koko's efforts....
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"Why me?" asks Kent Cheng. "Because you're retarded," says the audience. Deceptively billed as a Chow Yun-fat vehicle, Why Me? is actually a showboat turn for Kent Cheng, the least appreciated and most talented man in Hong Kong. A constant character actor, usually dismissed as "that fat guy" or, at best, considered a comic butterball, Cheng has written, produced, directed and acted in more movies than most of us have had hot dinners. In the early 90s, his fortunes hit a snag when his production company folded due to bad management, and it took him almost ten years of hard digging in the acting trenches to regain financial solvency.
Why Me? launched a successful series of movies starring Cheng as the mentally retarded character, Fat Cat, and won Cheng "Best Actor" at the 1985 Hong Kong Film Awards. Ostensibly, it's the story of Koko (Olivia Cheng) a new employee in the Family Services Department. Her boss is Chow Yun-fat and the two begin to date rather quickly. Koko takes on the case of Fat Cat, a retarded adult living with his mother in the New Territories. Determined to improve their lot (which no one but Koko seems to find lacking) she embarks on a grueling series of projects designed to "help" Fat Cat and his mother. Her own family is no prize, with an absentee gambling addict dad (Kenneth Tsang who played Stanley in John Woo's The Killer), and a mother who remarried Eric Tsang and moved overseas. Koko's mad at her parents about something, but she's determined to compensate for her situation by mothering Fat Cat. The problem being he's already got a mother. Olivia Cheng and Chow Yun-fat are good in their solid, unshowy roles, but the story would rapidly devolve into trite sentiment if not for Kent Cheng's Fat Cat. This is his show, and he's having the time of his acting life. His face is in a constant state of flux, twisted into a howl of despair one minute, cracking open in a beatific cackle the next, he is a constant amorphous wonder. The way this movie manages to simultaneously avoid and milk every cliche' in the book is borderline miraculous. Despite an ending lifted from The Lunatics, this is one of those gems of a movie that features a retarded character who's not treated like a freak on display. You may come to this movie for Chow Yun-fat, but stay for the amazing all-acting, all-directing one man show that is Kent Cheng. by Grady Hendrix |
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